In Microsoft Outlook, you can maintain contacts of businesses and people you want to communicate with. Additionally, you can use this contact folder as the source of data for mail merge. This allows you to get name and addresses that can be merged into a Word document. But sometimes, you face difficulties while adding these MS Outlook contacts to a mail merge document. One of the causes could be Outlook profile corruption or PST (Personal Storage Table) damage. To restore lost data in such cases, you need to use an up-to-date and valid data backup. But if backup is not updated, invalid or not available, you need to use Outlook PST Repair applications to reclaim your lost data.Consider a situation, you attempt to add MS Outlook contacts to a Word document through mail merge and Data Link Properties dialog appears. After that, you can’t add your contacts to the document.

Cause

Possible causes of this behavior are as follows:

1-There are some Microsoft Data Access Components issues with your computer. These are the Windows components that allow accessing data store.
2-Your Outlook profile is corrupt. It is also possible that the PST file is damaged.

Solution

To solve this issue, you need to follow these steps:

1-If MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) are causing the issue, you need to install the service pack for MDAC, MDAC 2.8 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
2-If the problem continues, Outlook profile might be damaged. You need to create a new Outlook profile and configure it to use the PST file that was earlier used by the corrupt Outlook profile. If PST is inaccessible or is damaged, you need to run Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) to repair the corrupted PST. You can use a recent data backup to restore the PST, if Inbox Repair Tool can’t fix the corruption. In case, the backup is non-existent, not-up-to-date or invalid, you need to use third-party Outlook Recovery tools.

Outlook PST recovery software are uniquely designed tools to safely scan, repair and restore the damaged PST file. These applications are equipped with high-end scanning algorithms along with interactive graphical interface. They can repair all PST objects like emails, appointments, contacts, tasks etc. You can use these software in almost all cases of corruption due to software issues.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a powerful and safe PST Repair tool. The software repairs and restores all PST objects. It supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. This Outlook Recovery tool is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT. You can also use the software for Splitting large PST files and recovery of PST Password.